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VMware recently unveiled a new Single Host VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. This new SDDC has been engineered to enable customers to try the VMC Service for up to 30 days before making any long-term commitments. At the end of the trial, the SDDC will be automatically deleted. There is currently no way to extend a Read more...

One of the more frequent questions answered by support shortly upon a customer creating a Stretched Cluster in VMware Cloud on AWS service for the first time is: What is this extra host in my cluster? That is the vSAN Witness Host. To understand why we need the vSAN Witness Host we need to take Read more...

Last March we publicly announced a preview of an upcoming feature being developed for the VMware Cloud on AWS Service; Stretched Clusters, and Multi-AZ SDDC Instances. Yesterday Emad Younis released an overview for this exciting new feature. Today I would like to explain the underlying technology behind this new type of VMC SDDC, but first, let’s explore Read more...

Since taking over Tech Marketing for Storage in VMware Cloud on AWS, I’ve had the privilege to work with many Customers and Partners working within the VMC on AWS service. For the most part, it’s been an invigorating experience. Given the complexity of Hybrid Cloud operations, I went into this expecting the primary challenge to Read more...

This week we announced several updates to VMware on AWS. Over the past year, we have been hard at work getting this groundbreaking service off the ground. The team is eager and has been working on a series of enhancements at a lightning pace. This latest release features a wide range of new capabilities spanning Read more...

VMware Cloud on AWS empowers anyone to quickly spin up or down a VMware vSphere powered SDDC on demand. This kind of dynamic provisioning is relatively straightforward from the network and compute perspectives, but storage administrators are quick to bring up the question of their role in such a managed service. The answer to this Read more...